All companies today operate in an incredibly competitive business environment. Not only can margins of profit be extremely slim, but it is almost always a necessity to compete with businesses from all four corners of the planet. However, sometimes cutting corners may seem to make economic sense, but can actually be disastrous for the fiscal competitiveness of a company.

The by now infamous revelations of the former NSA worker Edward Snowden have had a massive influence on Western culture. Particularly in the United States and United Kingdom, the average person in the street now at least has some awareness of the extent to which government agencies attempt to spy on their everyday activities.

All businesses are hugely reliant on data in this information age, and this is doubly true given the increasing problems of cloud computing and big data. Although this technology offers commercial companies a huge amount of opportunities, by the same token it also necessitates robust backup provisions.

In the contemporary world, both business and home computer users need to be concerned about the threat from hacking. There is the constant threat of malware in the modern PC environment, and additionally where there is money to be made, teams of extremely resourceful and knowledgeable hackers will always be incentivised to steal personal information or hold files hostage.

Computing and data has come to define the modern age, but the development of storage capacity has been pretty spectacular. From computers and storage systems which took up entire rooms, today we’re able to store vast amounts of data on a device that is smaller than the human thumb.

We’re happy to announce that since last month’s increased partner discounts and commission’s campaign was such a huge success, we’re doing it again this month! The Technetics Partner Referral System is offering a 20% discount and 15% commission structure on all jobs paid for within January and February!

Data storage issues have once again resulted in a large-scale loss of business, this time for budget airline Jetstar. In this case, just as many were heading home for Christmas this year, Jetstar experienced an overnight data storage issue resulting in flight delays for around 70,000 passengers.

A new hard drive by Seagate is offering a whopping eight terabytes of storage space. That’s quite a few holiday snapshots or spreadsheets! The price tag for this gargantuan amount of space is a little more than $300 AUD—or just about 4 cents per gigabyte. This seems like an amazing deal, so let’s take a closer look at a few aspects of the drive you should consider before purchasing.

Any serious discussion of computing power or storage space will inevitably include references to Moore’s Law, the famous axiom stating that the number of components on a chip of a given area will double every 18 months. For many years this law has held true, but for the current storage device of choice, flash memory, it looks like we might finally be hitting a wall.